verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
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She was scrabbling around , searching for the door-lock.
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Perhaps you're less well-prepared, with fewer resources and had to scrabble around to find your college place through Clearing?
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But they're gone, and you're scrabbling around for work.
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But with everyone listening intently, there followed what seemed like hours of scrabbling around with my paper looking for page two.
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I saw you from the doorway scrabbling around like a maniac.
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Willie and Zach waited at the foot of the ladder while Sammy scrabbled around the first rung.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Curious, I began scrabbling about with my foot, to see what it was.
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He scrabbled and flung refuse this way and that and finally he turned his eyes upward.
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He inserted his hands into the mud, and scrabbled.
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Perhaps you're less well-prepared, with fewer resources and had to scrabble around to find your college place through Clearing?
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She was scrabbling around, searching for the door-lock.
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The horse moved on to unsound ground, feeling the danger and scrabbling for a foothold.
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There were no masses of poor crushed together in fetid slums, scrabbling for every crust.